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Sensitivity of pointing calibration measurements

The most efficient way to measure the pointing offsets is to move the antennas to a continuum source and perform a five point map. From the measured baseline amplitudes one has to determine the antenna amplitude gains as a function of antenna positions. Then, for each antenna, the gain variation as a function of antenna offsets is used to find the pointing offsets.